Re: ....Question? Have They Found a Reason to go 'To the Moon and Mars' Yet???

Ordover@xxxxxxx wrote in
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They use UUVs
(underwater unmanned vehicles) for a variety of tasks, such as mine
detection and reconnaissance, but they aren't ready for, say, salvage
recovery.

But boy did they manage to bring up a lot of crap from the Titantic
without a single human diver going to the wreck, so I'm fairly sure a
robot could pick up random rocks on the Moon. :)

The Titanic robots were teleoperated, either from a manned submersible a
few feet away, or from the surface 12,000 feet away. The transport lag was
negligible. On the moon it won't be, so the robots will be correspondingly
far less dextrous.

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